When Barkhad Abdi and three other amateur Somali actors from Minnesota learned they had won major roles in a new Tom Hanks movie, they tore off their clothes and jumped into the Pacific...

In an age when we're able to consume content so many different ways — and that's a good thing, mostly — let's declare right now that there's only one truly correct way to...

Christopher Plummer may be frozen in some filmgoers' memories as the noble-browed patriarch who made stern parenting and anti-Nazism sexy in "The Sound of Music."   But Plummer...

NBC's new comedy "Welcome to the Family" starts with an unfortunate image problem.   The series, which debuts Thursday (8:30 p.m. EDT), is about an aimless California girl from...

With its playful mingling of fantasy and reality, James Thurber's beloved short story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" has seemed the stuff of movies since its initial publication in...

Ja Rule, who recently spent nearly two years behind bars for illegal gun possession, landed a role in a new movie because screenwriter Galley Molina empathized with the rapper's...

So goes the ending of the 1941 Orson Welles classic "Citizen Kane," spoilers be damned!   Revealing secret endings and plot twists has brought on wrath since the dawn of cinema,...

Jon Martello's relentless libido has a comic math to it.   At the club, Jon (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and his pals rate girls on a scale of one to "a dime." He keeps a weekly...

Beholding the late James Gandolfini doing a lovely job in a change-of-pace role significantly intensifies the already funny/sad aspects of "Enough Said," an engaging comic romance set amid...

Alecia Moore, better known as Grammy-winning singer Pink, makes her acting debut in "Thanks for Sharing." But the 34-year-old isn't pursuing other roles. She isn't even in a rush to...